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[quote=Anonymous]Growing up, I was very skinny, and didn’t eat a huge variety of food.  I didn’t grow up in a Western culture, but my mom was pretty no-nonsense about food.  She hated cooking, and wasn’t about to accommodate unreasonable demands.  So, I was that 70 lbs. teenager (it just occurred to me that my 10 year old weighs now, what I weighed at 15), who never fussed about foods, but also just did not eat if the foods I liked wasn’t around.  Fortunately, there were a few staples I loved, and I ate fruits like they were going out of style, and we always had an abundance of those.

As an adult, I eat a wide variety of foods, but my palate is still considerably more limited than my husband’s, who eats pretty much everything.  For instance, I don’t drink beer/wine/liquor - they all taste bitter.  Even dessert wine.  DH loves eggplant, but it tastes bitter to me.  I don’t drink sodas, because the bubbliness is unpleasant.  And so on.

So, I sympathize when my child says ‘This is not to my liking’, because well, it probably isn’t, and she isn’t making shit up to be difficult.  I’m sure she’d love to blend in and eat hot dogs like all the ‘normal’ kids.  So, the rule is that she is not allowed to be rude, but she is allowed to say ‘No, thank you!’.  And if that leaves her hungry, that’s why we pack snacks.  At least did, when she was little.[/quote]

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